Fund QTIBIPOC Healing: out of scarcity, toward abundance
We are seeking an abundance of rest. Individually. Collectively. This is our time to shift out of scarcity. What support can you offer for the QTIBIPOC community to heal and flourish together?
“Rest allows us to drop into our bodies, clear our minds from the congestion of a colonized state, and receive love, tenderness, and messages from our true self and ancestors.” – Sun Salve
Rest for Resistance (R4R) is a Trans People of Color led grassroots unincorporated organization that uplifts multiply-marginalized people, those who rarely get access to adequate health care or social support. We create healing spaces by and for QTIBIPOC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, Indigenous, people of color), particularly centering disabled and neurodivergent folks.
We are at an exciting time in the growth of our collective; 2023 has seen the continuation of QTPoC Meditation online, the start of Burnt Out Activist Club, and the return to hosting in-person events.
To continue these efforts into 2024, Rest for Resistance requires $30,000 to ensure we are able to pay healers without creating financial barriers to community care.
These funds may also support: the creation of a directory of QTIBIPOC healers who work outside the medical industrial complex, a virtual QTPoC Meditation library, and establishment of an infrastructure that aligns with R4R’s commitment to collaborative efforts and transformative justice.
Our crowdfund goal of $30k will not cover all 2024 expenses, yet will give Rest for Resistance resources to continue operating and grow from here.
How much can you invest in our collective healing today, as a one-time gift or monthly commitment?
When you give to an organization like ours, you are actively participating in a decolonizing effort, as we have divested from corporate mental health and wellness industrial complexes, to provide community care and heal from individual and collective trauma.
The Rest for Resistance community is asking that you help us run regular programming, which is at risk of pausing or stopping completely due to scarcity. R4R has created space for hundreds of QTIBIPOC to heal together, and with your donations, we look forward to hosting many more events.
We are able to increase access to rest because of your generosity.
Have you written a poem or reflection on rest? Are you offering alternative health services? Want to spotlight a cute photo? Share anything that supports QTIBIPOC healing on our socials!
Each Rest for Resistance facilitator makes $150 for holding space. Help us pay one person, and receive an R4R print zine as a thank you for supporting our events! These zines are almost gone and may not be reprinted.
Rest Fest t-shirt
Donate $300.00 or more
Amount over $30.00 is tax-deductible.
This crowdfund will ensure Rest for Resistance can continue our regular programming, yet does not cover costs for a 3rd annual Rest Fest in June/July 2024. Go above and beyond in your donation, and get a t-shirt as a thank you for keeping the dream of Rest Fest alive!
These t-shirts are available in black, white, and light pink, and read “Rest Fest, Rest for Resistance” on the front and “May our collective rest guide us to liberation” on the back.
Rest coaching sessions
Donate $500.00 or more
Amount over $450.00 is tax-deductible.
Recently, R4R founder dom chatterjee (they/he) completed a Mind-Body Coaching Certificate with The Embody Lab, in addition to nearing graduation in the M.A. Social Justice program at Union Theological Seminary.
Donate today to receive 3 one-on-one rest coaching sessions with dom!
